The Other Rich Fight: Alex Cooper and Her Very Unwell Empire I Part 5
5/7/202644 min
Vanessa and Natalie dive into how the Real Housewife playbook morphed into pop culture. They talk about Alex Cooper, Alix Earle, podcast empires and TikTok overexposure: how are young women navigating ambition, romance, and public scrutiny in real time? Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Read Vanessa’s book, Blurred Lines: Sex, Power and Consent on Campus, and check out Natalie on Instagram at @natrobe To connect with Infamous's creative team, join the community at joincampsidemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
[dramatic music] What they did to your family, you're lucky to make it out alive.
Ashley Carman· Guest0:05
Streaming on Peacock.
Speaker 00:06
These men are going to come after me. Taking them out is my only chance.
Gwyneth Paltrow· Soundbite0:10
Put a bullet in her head.
Ashley Carman· Guest0:12
[gunshot] From the co-creator of Ozark.
Speaker 00:15
Looks like a family was running drugs.
Speaker 30:17
Execution-style killing, it's rare for the Keys. Any leads on who they might have been running for?
Speaker 00:21
The cartel killed my family. I'm gonna kill them, all of them.
Ashley Carman· Guest0:26
M.I.A., streaming now. Only on Peacock.
Speaker 40:29
[upbeat music] Campsite Media.
Natalie Robehmed· Host0:33
[upbeat music] Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Infamous, a Sony Music Entertainment and Campsite Media production. I'm Natalie Bobamut. Thanks so much for listening to the show. A reminder that if you want to hear the full story of what really put Jen Shah in prison, scroll back to the earliest episode in this series, The Rich Utah Wives and Their Scams Part 1. [upbeat music] So as I just said, we spent the last few episodes diving into the Utah scam of Real Housewife Jen Shah, and a bit about the scandal, not a scam, but a fairly large brouhaha, of Mormon wife Taylor Frankie Paul. But when we zoom out and look at the Real Housewives as a cultural artifact, what interests me is the way in which the housewife playbook seems to have become commonplace across culture today. And when I say the housewife playbook, I mean this. You start or get into a fight with a peer,